Word: peterkin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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English 29b will be given in the second half year by Mr. L. D. Peterkin, of the University English Department. The course will deal with the history of the English novel from Dickens to the present time. It will be given on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10 o'clock...
...first prize of $35 and a second of fifteen will be awarded by three judges, chosen from the University Faculty. These arbiters are: Langdon Warner '03. Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for Research in Asia. Professor K.G.T. Webster '93, of the Department of English, and L.D. Peterkin Instructor and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
GREEN THURSDAY?Julia Peterkin? Knopf ($2.50). Author Peterkin is a lady of quality who lives on a great and isolated plantation in South Carolina. The people who serve her, the people who are her neighbors, the people she watches over, are black. In this book she writes about them. No wild crapshooters are they, no barrelhouse kings, cakewalk princes, or skull-faced witch-men. They are Negroes who pick cotton, plough fields, raise pickaninnies...
...about Killdee, his wife, Rose, and Missie, the little changeling with the pointed chin, the curving lips, the delicate bluish bloom on black cheeks, who came to stay with them. The blacks live so near the earth their roots go down into it like the roots of trees. Mrs. Peterkin understands these twisted roots, their fumbling, struggling, grappling, and the secret chemistries that work in them? sorrow and wonder, sweetness and regret, life and love and death...
...possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family, which is fabled to have crossed Bering Strait on ice to avoid the discomforts of shipboard, could have accomplished its purpose much more easily by means of Pullman sleepers under...